Quidditch for Harry in HBP? Alternate View.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 126700


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, -p <captivity at g...> wrote:
> 
> I've been reading plot theories on how Ginny will be a Chaser and 
> Ron will be Keeper and Harry will be Seeker again next year - Why 
> does everyone want to put all the popular characters on the team? 
> -I have a nagging suspiscion that JKR may keep Harry off the 
> Quidditch pitch for good.


> -P replied:
>
> Just because Umbridge has been discredited doesn't mean everything 
> is hunky-dory does it? What if Harry's school Quidditch days are 
> over?
> 
> -p

bboyminn:

Harry may or may not continue with Quidditch, but I don't personally
think it will have anything to do with Umbridge. Everyone, especially
Ginny, seems to realize the Umbridge's rules and ruling will only last
as long as Umbridge. If she's gone then her ruling against Harry is
gone. Neither Dumbledore nor McGonagall would EVER continue to enforce
Harry's ban from Quiditch.

But that doesn't mean he couldn't stop playing for other reasons. 

With Dumbledore re-appointed as Head of the Wizengamot, I'm sure all
the Education Decrees will be rescinded, and along with them all of
Umbridge's school related authority.

So, again, if Harry doesn't continue with Quidditch, it will not have
anything to do with Umbridgel; school work, DA Club, private lessons,
stress, but not Umbridge.

As far as Quidditch, I've always had the suspicion that Harry and Ron
would end up as Beaters. Given how terrible the current Beaters are, I
think they will find an alternate Keeper, Ginny will continue as
Seeker, and they will try to find a couple of reasonable Chasers.

No matter how you arrange it, the next Gryffindor Quidditch team is in
trouble. Although, they might encourage Dean and Seamus to try out for
Chasers, it seems that Seamus claims to have done a fair amount of
flying before he entered school. It's possible he never applied before
because a position he wanted was never open before. Now with at least
two Chasers gone, he my try out.

I predict - 

Keeper - unknown (Neville? Creevey? Transferred Slytherin? Other?)
Seeker - Ginny
Beaters - Ron and Harry
Chasers - Dean, Seamus, Katie Bell

Captian - Harry in the beginning, but Ron by the end.

Remember, you heard it here first.

Steve/bboyminn